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Wikipedia's Search Engine Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-because-you-can dept.

jasonoik writes "Wikia, the commercial company founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, reveals plans for a new, editable search engine. They say that the goal of the project is to get 5% of the search market. The service does not yet an official release date. The article also leaves open the possibility that the search results may contain ads, and concludes by listing figures of the web advertisement market." Update: 03/11 17:24 GMT by KD : Wikia and Wikipedia are separate companies.

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  1. Sheesh, I read that as "edible search engine" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...which sounded delicious.

  2. WP is the Anti-Google by Moryath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Do No Evil" became "Be as corrupt and evil as possible."

    An "editable search engine"? Great, now even MORE of the searches I run will pop up ads for v14GR4 and enhancements for body parts I don't possess, nevermind those linkspam sites that just insert the entire fucking dictionary in metacode.

    You searched for: Bill Gates
    you got: 400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.

    1. Re:WP is the Anti-Google by shudde · · Score: 5, Funny

      You searched for: Bill Gates you got: 400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.

      The system works.

  3. Disambiguation by Sukhbir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The thing that really rocks about Wikipedia's search is the Disambiguation function. Even Google does not have something like this.